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Greater Light, Greater Judgment
Commentators explain that Jesus's warning is about culpability. A city that hears the gospel and rejects it is held more accountable than a city like Sodom, which did not have such a clear revelation of grace. As one scholar puts it, rejecting the gospel is the 'crowning sin' because it's a sin against greater light.
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Luke
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AT Robertson
On Luke 10:12
More tolerable (ανεκτοτερον). Comparative of the verbal adjective ανεκτος from ανεχομα. An old adjective, but only the comparative…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 10:12
19th Century
Bishop
It shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom.—See Note on Matthew 10:15.
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 10:12–14
19th Century
Preacher
Hearing and rejecting the gospel is the crowning sin of all.
Whatever else people are guilty of, if they have not rejected Christ, they have …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 10:12
Sodom, destroyed along with Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24–29), represents the consequences of ignoring God’s warning to repent (cf.[Reference…
John Gill
On Luke 10:12
17th Century
Pastor
But I say unto you
The same that he said to the twelve apostles, when he sent them out, (Matthew 10:15),…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 10:1–16
17th Century
Minister
Christ sent the seventy disciples, two and two, that they might strengthen and encourage one another. The ministry of the gospel calls people to re…